Wheezy reached EOL (April 26th 2016 (full) / May 2018 (LTS)). But my main reason is that I used some DVB stuff on bananapi, and it required newer packages from something.

The only thing what I'd like to achieve now is to save more power. It's good that I was able to boot from pendrive only. In this case I'll be able to send all HDDs to sleep when there is no activity. It would be nice to do something with the CPU too. Most of the time there is no activity, so in a yearly bases the 11W power consumption (vs bpi 2.5W) leads me more electricity bill. In Hungary 1W is about 1.1€/year, so "using sata port(s) on nearly doubled speed" costs me +9€/year. Okay-okay I know it's not much, but if it's possible to save then it would be nice to do.

So long story short: if anyone knows how to make cpufreq working on this thing, please share

Wheezy reached EOL (April 26th 2016 (full) / May 2018 (LTS)). But my main reason is that I used some DVB stuff on bananapi, and it required newer packages from something.

The only thing what I'd like to achieve now is to save more power. It's good that I was able to boot from pendrive only. In this case I'll be able to send all HDDs to sleep when there is no activity. It would be nice to do something with the CPU too. Most of the time there is no activity, so in a yearly bases the 11W power consumption (vs bpi 2.5W) leads me more electricity bill. In Hungary 1W is about 1.1€/year, so "using sata port(s) on nearly doubled speed" costs me +9€/year. Okay-okay I know it's not much, but if it's possible to save then it would be nice to do.

So long story short: if anyone knows how to make cpufreq working on this thing, please share

I tried using the "tuning" function of powertop, but it couldn't save me more power.

About WOL: I still don't want to do the job with WakeOnLan, and I'am afraid I couldn't do it anyway. It seems for me that there is no hardcoded mac address in the nic (is this even possible?), so I won't be able to address the magic packets.

It seems for me that there is no hardcoded mac address in the nic (is this even possible?), so I won't be able to address the magic packets.

Yes, that is possible. Why bother to add a prom to the nic, if the intended platform already needs some flash to boot anyway? Many embedded systems have the mac address(es) stored in the u-boot environment, and it's up to u-boot, or even the OS to read it and write it to the nic.

I copied the uImage into the nand, and my rootfs is on the 2nd partition of an ssd in sata slot 1.

I can boot only if uart is connected. If I'd like to boot "standalone", then the boot stops somewhere. If I turn on the nas, wait some time and connect uart to see what's up (connect uart cable and press enter), then I get:

Code:

Unknown command '▒▒' - try 'help'Marvell>>

Do you have any idea how to debug at this stage? Or what would be the right bootcmd to boot without uart connected?

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